- I’ve been eating some delicious food lately. A big highlight was my friend Pia’s cowgirl party with candied bacon, vegetarian chili, cornbread and pumpkin pie. As for things I’ve cooked and liked: butternut squash and chickpea salad, a few riffs on this salad (sans capsicum – $25/kg at the moment! outrageous!), orange-glazed tofu (I actually prefer it with tempeh), Nigel Slater’s mushroom pie, and a thrown together pork laab. Lunch today was a salad of roast broccoli, kumara and garlic with chorizo, feta and pinenuts. This friday we’re having a few people over for dinner and declaring it fancy friday (I hate casual friday), and I’m hoping to tick off the 4 course meal on my list of 27 things.
- Delaney of Heartbreak Pie is working her way through the Wellington on a Plate festival with a special blog, 17 Days 17 Dates. I’ve been following it keenly - obviously very keenly as last night I dreamed she and I went on a date together with Sean Bean! If only.
- Am reading my way through a zillion pages of Something Changed (which I think is where I found the above image), which means I now have a lot more books on my to-read list, and have learned about Japanese spirit foxes.
- I saw The Future a couple of nights ago and loved it. I’m a big Miranda July fan (this NY Times profile is great) and was a bit fearful it wouldn’t live up to my lofty expectations, but I loved it. It never occured to me she could have such haters, I suppose I can see how someone might dislike her style but I find everything she’s done so honest, humorous, open, and deliciously weird.
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